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 Adeyinka Makinde
Adeyinka Makinde trained for the law as a barrister. He lectures in criminal law and public law at a university in London, UK, and has an academic research interest in intelligence & security matters. He is a contributor to a number of websites for which he has written essays and commentaries on international relations, politics and military history. He has served as a programme consultant and provided expert commentary for BBC World Service Radio, China Radio International and the Voice of Russia.
Items mentioned in / relevant to the conversation
Other items recommended by Adeyinka Makinde
1) Rendition & Torture
- Torture in UK law at Justice.org (https://justice.org.uk/torture-uk-law/)
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Detailed page at Human Rights Watch on the US-led rendition of Libyan Islamist suspects (September 2012) (https://www.hrw.org/report/2012/09/05/delivered-enemy-hands/us-led-abuse-and-rendition-opponents-gaddafis-libya)
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David Leppard, "MI6 'forced Straw to admit' he approved suspect's rendition", The Sunday Times (15 April 2012) [Alas, this is a pay-to-view website, but subscribers to The Sunday Times can access it (presumably).]
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The Independent's June 2016 report on the UK Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) decision not to charge Jack Straw and Mark Allen—(presumably with being accessories to kidnapping and torture)—over Libya rendition. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/no-charges-for-jack-straw-or-mi6-over-libya-rendition-a7072511.html)
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Reprieve.org's report on the decision to uphold the CPS's decision not to prosecute Jack Straw and Mark Allen over rendition (August 2016). Note the passage referring to the use of subordinates of the initial decision-makers in the review. (http://www.reprieve.org.uk/press/cps-refuses-to-prosecute-uk-govt-for-plotting-libyan-renditions-to-torture/)
- "UK defeated over torture documents", The Independent (2009). Report on the fallout of the Binyamin Mohamed case over torture at Guantanamo. The report contains the useful quote by the judge that the British role went beyond that of bystander, or witness, with respect to the wrongdoing. Note also, the British government's objection to the release of documents which, if allowed, would make Britain seem to be an unreliable ally in the eyes of the Americans. (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-defeated-over-torture-documents-1804094.html)
2) Brigadier Frank Kitson, the MRF & British Counterinsurgency doctrine in Northern Ireland
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Paper penned by Brigadier Frank Kitson, "Future Developments in Belfast : By Commander 39 Airportable Brigade where he states" (04 December 1971)—in which Kitson states: "As you know we are... building up and developing the MRF..." (external PDF: http://mcgurksbar.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kitson_paper71_complete.pdf)
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Martin Ware’s account given to 'Republican News', dated November 2013, about findings he used in the BBC Panorama programme Britain’s Secret Terror Force (http://republican-news.org/current/news/2013/11/britains_secret_terror_force.html#.WESNmfmLTIV)
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"Frank Kitson in Northern Ireland and the British way of CounterInsurgency", by Professor James Hughes of the London School of Economics, writing for History Ireland (Issue 1, Jan/Feb 2014, Vol. 22) (http://www.historyireland.com/volume-22/frank-kitson-northern-ireland-british-way-counterinsurgency/)
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Ciaran MacAirt, "From Palestine to Belfast: Post-War Counter-Insurgency - A Very British Family Affair". This is a fascinating piece on father and son British Army officers who served with Special Forces Units seeking to quell insurgencies in Palestine (father) and Northern Ireland (son). Captain (later Brigadier) Hamish McGregor is mentioned and filmed in the Panorama documentary Britain’s Secret Terror Force. He was the owner of a Thompson automatic rifle involved in the drive-by shooting in a Catholic neighbourhood.
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Ciaran MacAirt, "The MRF and its Director of Terrorism", mcgurksbar.com (28 June 2014)
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